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It's an orange Hatology CD, abbreviated from the original 2-LP set.

N.Y Capers & Quirks is another great set. That one doesn't really get its due. The original double album was Capers (later New York Capers), also had "The Crunch," "We Don't" I & II and another take of "Bud's Brother." Tape issues apparently prevented these tracks from being reissued.

Season 3 is much better, and season 4 is the best! I agree about season 3 -- I've seen 5 episodes so far, and it has much more depth than most of the earlier episodes. Guy This series really started to hit its stride in Season 3.

Vespers does indeed show Aebi well. I like how she always fits into Lacy's various groups and never dominates proceedings. If I were to try and win someone over on Lacy, Morning Joy would be my pick.

I have Dreams on vinyl. Good set featuring Derek Bailey as well as Potts and Lacy. I passed on Scratching the Seventies--some of the earlier stuff just didn't grab me--but it's a good set for those who like Lacy of this vintage. I love the Lacy-Potts front line. Aebi will be off-putting to some. Her vocals come from a different tradition. I happen to like her singing. Hey Swinger, sounds like you could probably get it for a good price from akanalog!

I'll deliver an answer @ 5:00 PM CPT. Jim, I didn't know Hockey Night in Canada started that early! It always came on at 6:00 MST when I was growing up! Cheers, Shane

A Slight Case of Overbombing by The Sisters of Mercy It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest by The Fugs

Last night I saw Billy Bragg in Vancouver. He played solo (on a Fender), except for a brief encore with a fiddler. Good show.

I never knew about the provenance of that song. Seems Mr. Page has a propensity for lifting other folks' tunes. http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/jimmypage.html

http://www.espdisk.com/esp4028.html ESP has released a Frank Wright live concert with the Center of the World Quartet (Bobby Few, Alan Silva, Muhammad Ali). It's called Unity and it's a concert recording from June 1, 1974 at the Moers Festival. This was a great group and I'm looking forward to hearing this.

It's a good site that frequently samples long lost gems. It's a shame that Impulse's overlords have always issued this music (Sam Rivers') in such piecemeal form. Mosaic anyone?

The psycho in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho would agree about Invisible Touch.

Eric Dolphy played on a couple of albums with two different incarnations of the Latin Jazz Quintet. I've heard Caribe on Prestige and while it's pretty straight ahead, it's still Dolphy. The Quintet though is more jazz than Latin. Never heard the other, which was reissued on CD at one point.

an alternate of In a Silent Way with Miles?? Wasn't everything from those sessions already released on the Miles box? I assume that the alternate take from the Miles box is exactly the one on this WR box. Guy Judging by the timing, it's probably the master take (sans "It's About That Time" and the repeat).

Crispell performs a lot in my part of the world, so I've been fortunate to see her both in "free" and "composed" contexts and enjoy both. Once, during a trio concert a couple of years ago, she even sang one song!

When the Select disappears, it would be nice to see this reissued as an RVG, Conn, whatever.

Here’s more info on the new 4-CD Ulrichsberg set from Leo. It’s a good set and includes a welcome (recorded) return to some older creative orchestra music chestnuts. Disc 1 - Comp. 301 performed by Genevieve Foccroulle on piano Disc 2 - 14-piece Austrian ensemble with three conductors (Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum, Aaron Siegel). Group starts with Comp. 96 and travels to Comp. 134 (previously heard on Eugene and the London Jazz Composers Orchestra discs) with some language improvisations, collages and Ghost Trance moments along the way. Braxton plays sax from time to time as well as conducting. Fantastic! Disc 3 - Braxton, Bynum and Siegel perform a Diamond Curtain Wall piece with electronics. A little bit reminiscent of some of the stuff Braxton did with Richard Teitelbaum. Disc 4 - Same idea as Disc 2, only this time Comps. 169 and 147 are the main pieces.

In the case of Zorn, this is indeed great news for The Stone. It will be money put to good use, probably mostly for the benefit of other musicians.

MacArthur Fellows for 2006 Include Composer John Zorn, Jazz Violinist Regina Carter By Matthew Westphal 19 Sep 2006 Regina Carter, an innovative jazz violinist, and John Zorn, a composer and saxophonist whose music straddles the genres of contemporary classical, jazz and Jewish folk music, are among the 2006 MacArthur Fellows, whose names were announced this morning by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The MacArthur Fellowships — popularly known as the "genius awards" — are given each year to support outstanding and innovative work in such fields as research science, literature, the visual and performing arts and health care. The associated cash grants, paid out over five years, are intended to allow the Fellows to devote themselves to their creative work free (temporarily) from worries about making a steady living. The 2006 MacArthur Fellowships are worth $500,000. ... www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5249.html

Nigerian scam, Russian style. I got one these once, purportedly from an Ekaterina, and with a photo. The next day I get another one from an Olga, but with the same photo.

There may be a mention in John Litweiler's Ornette bio. If I recall correctly, Ornette checked out a Dead concert and was impressed with the whole Deadhead scene.

Another live archival recording is out on Leo Records--Springtime in Chicago from 1978.

It seems every time Dizzy touched this tune it was magic, even in later years. I saw a nice version from Montreal with that guitar/bass/drums combo he had in later years. The Massey Hall version may well be my favourite. Parker's versions are great as well. Also quite like Sonny's take on the Village Vanguard set.

I'm sure the efforts in dealing with the Estate (prop. Vince Wilburn Jr.) have also helped to delay this one's release. Sony has a lot of live recordings of this group in the can, yet other than the Japanese issue of the first Juan-Le-Pins concert and the Fillmore sets with Airto, nothing—which is a shame, since this band was always challenging and constantly evolving.

The second concert is as good as the first. While I agree that these concerts are more conservative than the fall concerts, they do have the upside of featuring different material. Guy In this context, I don't think "more conservative" means to imply that this is not great stuff - it is! I made the mistake of letting it "sleep" in my collection for too long (under the incorrect assumption that it somehow sounded circa 1962 ... ). You are correct in that "more conservative" doesn't mean that this is not great stuff. By the fall tour, Corea was further in to his "far out" phase and the band got a lot more intense, including some avant garde moments that were uncharacteristic of a Miles Davis group.